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As former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee soared to first place in polls
among Republican presidential candidates in Iowa and to second place
in many national polls, he is being gifted with both opportunity and
further scrutiny.

Huckabee found himself this weekend explaining proposals he made
during his disastrous 1992 Senate race, when he suggested AIDS
patients be quarantined. For the most part, Huckabee defended his
views from 17 years ago.

In an Associated Press survey from 1992, Huckabee suggested that the
government isolate AIDS patients from the rest of the populace.

"If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with
the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers
of this plague," he wrote. "It is the first time in the history of
civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been
isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease
for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue
instead of the true health crisis it represents."

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